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...final production by legendary impresario David Merrick, 77. When his previous big hit, 42nd Street, was ending its nine-year run, Merrick talked of revamping the show with an all-black cast. In effect, he has carried the same idea over into Oh, Kay!, which shares with 42nd Street a show-business setting, a romance across class lines, a vintage score, a romanticized Art Deco vision of Manhattan and an abundance of tap dancing -- plus, alas, an irredeemably corny plot and some less than inspired clowning...
Screenplay by Monte Merrick...
...Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernada Alba in which a male actor is being used to play the part of a grandmother. In the past he has directed performances of The Elephant Man where he used a handsome male actor to play the role of John Merrick. Hogan says the actor was "representing what was inside the character rather than his outward appearance...
...produce films other than his own, saw Eraserhead and determined that Lynch should direct The Elephant Man. The film, cued by the parable of physical deformity as a kind of saint's sackcloth, embellished by Lynch's phantasmagoric direction and anchored by John Hurt's delicate performance as John Merrick, won the director big-studio notice. He could do anything now -- anything but turn Frank Herbert's daunting science fantasy into a movie Dino De Laurentiis would like. "I sold out on Dune," Lynch says today. "I was making it for the producers, not for myself. That...
Some people collect Victorian hatpins. Others accumulate matchbooks. Mel Poretz, 60, is a compulsive collector of useless information. He knows exactly how many steps there are in his Merrick, N.Y., split-level home (21). As a child he knew how many stars surrounded the mountain peak in the Paramount Pictures logo (26 originally, now just 22). And like many people who are happy in their jobs, he has found a way to put his obsession to work...